Subject: WOS BirdBox Transcription 22-25 December, 1996
Date: Dec 25 10:07:18 1996
From: "Susan L. Collicott" - camel at serv.net



Transcribed by Susan Collicott
camel at serv.net
phone (206) 440-0585

The Washington BirdBox is a voice mailbox sponsored by the Washington
Ornithological Society. To leave a message about a notable sighting, or
to listen to the 12 most recent messages, call (206) 454-2662 and follow
the prompts. First-time BirdBox users may find it convenient, before
calling, to review the status of Washington's chickadee species.

[Mailbox previously checked at 7:00am 12-22-96.]

9:32am Dec 22: Hello this is Dan McDougall-Tracey. At the Montlake Fill
on Sunday the 22nd is a WILSON'S WARBLER. Also of a little interest is a
PEREGRINE FALCON, a EURASIAN WIGEON. That's it, I can be reached at
525-5072.

3:27pm Dec 22: This is Douglas Marshall, my home phone number is 270-8960.
Today the 22nd of December I was able to relocate the BLACK AND WHITE
WARBLER at Foster Island. It was in the thickets adjacent to State Route
520, matter of fact it was within about 100 feet of that. Good luck and
good birding.

3:32pm Dec 22: Hi this is Dan McDougall-Tracey. On Sunday the 22nd at
Sandpoint, actually at the southern end of the NOAA property was a
SHORT-EARED OWL. My number is 525-5072.

8:00am Dec 23: Hello this is Scott Atkinson, reporting for the
Sequim/Dungenness CBC held on Sat dec 21st. With two parties and several
feeder watchers left to report, the total count is now at 142 or 143
species, very close to our preceeding all time washington state CBC high
of 142 set back in the mid 70's by the Grays Harbor count. Highlights for
the count on Saturday included an OSPREY and an ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD at
Diamond Point; 4 MARBLED GODWITS down at Port Washington; 3 SNOW BUNTINGS,
11 AMERICAN PIPITS, 11 SNOWY OWLS, and an undetermined number of ANCIENT
MURRELETS off the Dungeness Spit; a likely SPOTTED OWL or strict species
and an AMERICAN TREE SPARROW in the Taylor Cutoff Lost Mountain territory
south of 101; an adult GLAUCOUS GULL and a first-winter BLACK-LEGGED
KITTIWAKE off the Grays Marsh Beach; also there a SORA, a SNOWY OWL and a
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW; at Jamestown a GREATER YELLOWLEGS and a DOWITCHER.
The previous day they also had a CINNAMON TEAL there. That's it, goodbye.

12:50 Dec 23: This is Bob Benton I'm calling on 12/23 to report that the
previous day, 12/22/96, Sunday, Becky and I found 3 SURFBIRDS on the Alki
Beach area, just south of the lighthouse across Beach Drive from the brick
METRO building with the fish sculpture on the side. The surfbirds, all
three together, were harvesting on the rocks on the splash zone and were
15 or 20 feet from where we were standing all along where there are
railings built and viewing areas. They kept harvesting from rock to rock,
and seemed not a bit disturbed by human habitation, at least not by humans
walking within 10 feet of them. Occasionally they would fly because of
gulls.


[Messages checked at 10:00am Thursday, December 25, 1996]